Anyone who slings code for a living knows the feeling all too well: your code is running fine and dandy one minute, and the next minute is throwing exceptions. You’d swear on a stack of O’Reilly books ...

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When debugging a program, instead of quietly struggling in front of the screen, there is a technique called ' rubber duck debugging ' in which you explain the code line by line to a rubber duck doll ...

Have you ever started asking someone to help you solve a problem, and halfway through, you figure it out yourself? It feels great. It feels even better when you learn to do it on purpose—and when you ...

A yellow rubber duck as a problem solver — a tried and tested trick from the IT scene: In so-called rubber duck debugging, you explain your own problem to a plastic bird step by step and often ...